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2025 Reading Challenges
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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
Down a Dark Hall, Lois Duncan, 181 pages. (1974 pub, so cutting it close as a "classic".)
Salem Possessed, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, 340 pages.
Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok, trans. Jackson Crawford, 184 pages.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien, 398 pages.
Group total: 368,410
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections - 352 pagesElectra by Sophocles - 138 pages
490 read in total
new group total: 369 004
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell433 pages
Group total: 369.437
1984 by George Orwell 328 pagesPersuasion by Jane Austen 249 pages
Group Total 370, 776
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
146p
Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
144p
Group total: 372,086
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen389 pages
Group total: 376,505
The Collector (e-book) (originally published 1963) by John Fowles (1926-2005). Finished 15 October 2025. 283 pages.Group Total: 377,834.
Mod
210 pages
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
426 pages
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
290 pages
The Birds of Aristophanes by Aristophanes
99 pages
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
809 pages (Big pages. Should be at least twice that!)
Group Total: 381, 093
The Pearl by John Steinbeck96 pages
Group Total: 381,189
La vie devant soi. Romain Gary 203 pagesTotal: 381,673
East of Eden John Steinbeck 601 pages382,743
Hester by Margaret Oliphant512 pages
Group total: 383,536
The Night-Watchman's Friend by Mary Fitt - 241 pgsCop Killer by Maj Sjöwall - 322 pgs
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout - 304 pgs
Death in White Pyjamas / Death Knows No Calendar - 550 pgs
The Camomile: An Invention by Catherine Carswell - 224 pgs
A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
Total to Date: 385,417 pgs
The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe by Erle Stanley Gardner - 224 pgsThe Attending Truth by E.R. Punshon - 253 pgs
Signed, Picpus by Georges Simenon - 176 pgs
Not to Be Taken by Anthony Berkeley - 256 pgs
A Lost Opportunity by Leo Tolstoy - 29 pgs
Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson - 34 pgs
Total to Date: 386,389 pgs
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury - 306 pgsAt Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie - 320 pgs
Monkey King by Wu Cheng'en - 370 pgs
Cat and Mouse: A mystery in Wales by Christianna Brand - 255 pgs
Total to Date: 387,640 pgs
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (other topics)The Tattooist of Auschwitz (other topics)
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Heather Morris (other topics)Heather Morris (other topics)
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251 pages
Group total: 366 986